Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-03
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

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I'm quarrel about woman at Iron
Mountain Louis Pankarey was stabbed 10
| death.
John English, hermit, who for forty
years had lived alone in house near Ro-
meo, died recently.
"A woman of Emmett County stole a
dressed hog weighing lsO pounds, carried
it of, and hid it in q snowdrift.
The Democratic State Convention,
which will be held at Detroit, March 2, will
be attended by nearly 7G1 delegates.
Fire recently destroyed the clothing
store of j. M. Lenhoff at East Saginaw,
damaging his entire stock, valued at $780,
600; insurance, $4,000.
While sitting at his desk in school
room at Marquette, lad named Mitchell
was dangerously wounded by the accidental
discharge of pistol in his pocket.
Senator Stockbridge has purchased an
old church edifice and lot in Kalama 90,
and presented it 10 the Yonng Mems Chris
tian Association of that city. Tho gift is
valued at $1,000.
The two doctors in Maybec are bitter
foes. One of them went TO the Office of tho
other, locked the door behind him, and be-
gan to flourish knife and revolver. The
frightened proprietor of the Office called
assistance. and thus escaped with his life.
"A dog that was supposed to be mad bit
seventeen sheep near Highland. The own
er of the animals caused them to be killed
and skinned. His hired man got some Of
the sleeps blood in a wound ON the back
of his hand and the next day died of ter
ror. thinking that he had the hydrophobia.
The Sterling mine at Clarksburg will
start up again soon and work actively dur
ing the summer. The Sterling mine has
been idle since 1882, when it produced
about 10000 tons of ore. Several other
smaller mines in the Marquette County
iron district which have been closed down
for several years will be opened again be-
fore May 1.
"A daring daylight robbery was CON-
mitted at Iron Mountain, by which the City
Treasurer was robbed of $4,000 cash.
Treasurer A. E. Kendley kept the money in
safe in his store. Late in the afternoon
two strangers entered the store ostensbly
to buy goods. During the temporary abb
sence of Kendley the two men rided the
safe and fed.
The Bad AK Democrat says: Several
months ago an agent for safe company
meandered into Bad Ak and concluded
other safe company took in the town, and
astonished the purchasers by convincing
them with jack and gimlet that they
had safes with lining Of wood, q filling of
a sort of mud, and an iron covering outside
as thick as knife blade"
AT Crosse Point, Detroits ar.stocratic
residence suburb on Lake st. Clair, great
deal Of damage has been done by the re-
cent storms. Ice from the lake is piled up
twenty to forty feet high along the shore,
and for three miles pretty much every
thing is wrecked. Boat houses and docks
are torn completely away and destroyed or
SO badly damaged as to spoil all hopes of
future usefulness. The great cakes of ice
driven on tho shore by the storm of last
week caused the damage. The loss will be
not less than $4,000.
Report of the Fish Commission.
The seventh biennial report of the State
Board of Fish Commissioners is Just out,
and it is clear, comprehensive and valua-
BILE statement of all details of the man.
agement and results of the States work
in fish culture during the past two years.
An idea of the progress made is we'll pre-
sented in the sub-report made by Lyman
A. Bant, the Statistical Agent OF the Com
mission, which is published as n portion
of the main report. Mr.. Brant shows
that from September 6, 1885, 10 March,
1856, he visited all the fishing stations on
the coast of each peninsula of Michigan
failing only to visit the stations ON Isle
Royale. A gratifying result of these labors
has been the largely increased number Of
reports received last year from fishermen.
In 1883 eighty reports were made; in 1881
but fifty reports were received by mail;
while last year the number received foois
up 427. The number and class of fisher
men reporting are as follows: Pound net
fishermen, 1879; gill net fishermen, 1913; gill
and pound net fishermen, 81; seine and
fyke net fishermen, 33; total, 427.
From the partial returns furnished the
Commission has been able to CLEAN the fol-
lowing statement, which is submitted, not
as an accurate showing, but as calculated
to convey faint idea Of the monetary i'm
portance of the industry: Value of nets,
$501 ,142; value of boats, 1919, TAG; value
of docks and buildings, 1856, 1872; value of
other apparatus, $56, 500; total, 81, 1890.
The above figures do not embrace the value
| of lands for fishing, coast and few of the
| returns from which the table Is made were
complete in oil the items IN, ntioned. The
| item of "docks and buildings" especially il
| incomplete and falls far below the actual
value of that class of improvements.
Returns from 427 fishermen show their
| total catch to have been as follows during
the year 1885: Whitefish, 1894 ,450 pounds;
trout, 1851 ,573 pounds; herring, 4,56S, lJ5
pounds; pickerel, 876,899 pounds; stur-
geon, GIT ,449 pounds; black bass, 35,Slj
pounds; other kinds, 3,lSl ,435 pounds; tic
total value being S673, ,S93.45.
To the above figures, received in formal
reports, are added estimates based upon
1.-The most reliable information obiainable.
thus presenting carefully estimated aud
reasonable approximation of the total catch
of Michigan fishermen the grand total of
26,3S1, ,874 pounds, nearly 1880 tons.
which, at the average price of three cents
per pound (about what the fisherman re-
ceives', would realize q monetary value Of
| $79l ,456.25.
-Michigan's crop OF spring Ananiases
has evidently survived the January frosts.
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